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Matthew, in chapters 24-25, records the Lord’s heart of compassion and love mingled with unwavering holiness. This section of Scripture, including the Parable of the Talents, constitutes final warnings, prophecies, and encouragements to His people Israel prior to His departure.
k10clay
What is really crazy is that she was from Altadena, which is one of the towns that was absolutely devastated by the Eaton Fire. Heartbreaking, surreal, and devastating 💔
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
Fuck yeah Octavia Butler. I discovered her with Bloodchild. Powerful stuff, I'm determined to read everything she wrote.
Kwyjor
Someone point out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can't_Happen_Here yet?
cuddleskunk
I'm starting to wonder if Donald Trump had an assistant or advisor at some stage that used "Parable of the Talents" as a guidebook.
manyslayer
thoushaltnotpass
She's a Cassandra, not a Nostradamus. Nostradamus wrote illegible nonsense people are trying to stick to past events post-hoc
5050Saint
Yeah, Nostradamus unleashed a firehose of vague aphorisms that could be interpreted however you'd like. Butler was fairly dead on.
jeejeejerrycotton
Seems like they did, and took it to heart?
wannasee
Amen!! Get a copy of her book for FREE as a download on archive.org
https://archive.org/download/Black-History-Month-Library-20210825/Butler%2C%20Octavia%20-%20Para">">archive.org
https://archive.org/download/Black-History-Month-Library-20210825/Butler%2C%20Octavia%20-%20Parable%20of%20the%20Sower.pdf
Persistence8
And what happens next? https://www.wholeworks.com/blog/fairhaven-a-novel-of-climate-optimism-book-excerpt
Try Fairhaven - A Novel of Climate Optimism
wolfrog
"Let's make America great again" was famously used in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again
EverNotRelevant
Science fiction does not predict the future; it describes the present. The fundamental problems from 30 years ago were never fixed.
ImGoingToGoFallAsleepOnABench
Deep Space Nine and The Simpsons have entered the chat.
420supercoolusername69
The only difference between science fiction and science is time.
prettydumb
yeah like, sometimes, and very rarely. do you know much science fiction? lol
EverNotRelevant
You need to work on your media comprehension, bud.
hfctom
Especially if the wrong people use it as a roadmap instead of a warning.
ReleaseTheBeeees
In 1967 Guy Debord wrote the Society of the Spectacle, the key point of which is that the image of a thing was becoming more important than the thing itself.
Darklinkinfinite
See also: The Simpsons
Gogoglovitch
Many of the greatest science fiction authors deliberately exaggerate current trends to serve as a warning or, in some cases, highlight good things that might be overlooked. They want to alert people and give them a vision of the future to steer towards or avoid. Sadly, not enough people tend to listen...
JustAnotherknarF
yeah, she also wrote Time Travel stories (Kindred) so I'm assuming either' she's from the future or she can channel / remote view possible future events. Either way, like any good storyteller, she's just trying to warn us of our bad repetitive habits
EverNotRelevant
Butler's "Xenogenesis" trilogy is existentially terrifying. It is a story of conquest from the perspective of the colonized.
LtGenObvious
What is described above is not from the 1993 novel Parable of the Sower (pictured), but instead from its 1998 sequel Parable of the Talents.
altrdgenetics
Still over 20 years from where we are now... pretty good prediction.
HaroldTheCleverSheep
Both great books either way.
outofallloops
I’m apparently living them currently and can’t say I’m a big fan
BenHobson
Both have been on my to do list for a while.
USKillbotics
I never read the second because the first hurt my soul so much.
sphericalworld
Fellow Star seed
pdarkfred
It's arguably even harder to get through but SOOOOOOO worth it. Seriously, do her the honor if you can.
Prymack
.....And, how do we fix it?
pdarkfred
Organize at the local level, plant gardens, practice practical and also low-tech skills (sewing, cooking, canning, making art, music, singing, writing), educate yourself and others, question information and convenient narratives, stop buying shit you don't need.
annonymouse211
So apparently the maga phrase started with Reagan. Per Reddit and zero followup research. But this book sounds cool. Kinda like Book of Eli or whatever that movie was called.
heerobya
Reagan was when the betrayal of the American social construct began in earnest, yea.
HonestCommentFarmer
Maybe the phrase itself, but the concept of America First starts with the Fascist-adjacent political group America First Committee that wanted to keep us out of WWII (because it helped Germany).
ragazzino
henryvk
This particular phrase, yes, but nativism had her present in US politics from the start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_in_United_States_politics even relatively enlightened figures like Benjamin Franklin were worried about „too many foreigners.“
LordKingSalmon
Clinton also used said phrase in his campaign.
ConstantBitRate
Try out "Reamde" by Neal Stephenson circa 2011 for another peek into the near-future.
SomebodyalreadytookMyPants
I read that and remember it being really good, I just went to wikipedia and read the plot summary and barely remember any of it. getting old has its perks I am going to be able to re read so many books hahah
freshthrowaway1138
I preferred "Anathem", because I'd rather just move into a pro-science monastery that ignores the various collapses of the outside world.
archon325
You'd be surprised how many current events can be predicted just by paying attention, knowing history, noticing patterns, and betting on human greed. Also MAGA is not really groundbreaking, it's basically using outdated tropes from WW2. Fake news = Lying press, which was a term the Nazis used. "America First" literally was already the catchphrase of Nazi sympathisers in America. There is nothing original about their movement.
RatsLiveOnNoEvilStar
Churchill predicted Hitler's rise and reign by looking at his own family history. He wrote a biography about John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough, in order to highlight what was happening in Germany to the French expansion in the late 1600's.
TheLiteraryMachine
People thought I was crazy talking about the repeal of Roe vs. Wade back in 2008. They said, "That would be political suicide. The Republicans will never do it." But we just saw McCain run with freakin' Sarah Palin and it certainly looked possible from where I was standing.
archon325
A lot of the dominos were set up a long time ago, they played a long game. Like how they discredited the media and academics for decades, priming people to be okay or even proud of having beliefs that conflict with reality. Even the day to day tactics and rhetoric were so consistent, like how they always accuse their opponent of what they are guilty of. It feels like they've been following a fascist playbook for my whole life and it's finally paying off for them.
decomposingcomposers
I think saying she's like Nostradamus is a slight on her.
ravnicrasol
Pretty much.
Nostradamus' "predictions" are entirely born out of grabbing whatever mistranslated bit of text you can vaguely be interpreted to apply to a situation and going "OMG! That's totally Jesus' face in a piece of toast!"
guitarfourtysix
(one of 1500 quatrains: ) The lion will part from the ruler. There will be war. Rain will follow after the dog will bark.
MightyUrto
??? we were arguing about climate chane in the 90s, Bill Clinton was president and called black youths superpredators, wildfires happen multiple times a year in California and were predicted to get worse... is this one of those GenZ don't know history things?
LordKingSalmon
Are you suggesting Bill Clinton was a fascist?
Also, I took two seconds to Google. Super predator was coined by a Princeton University professor in 1995, and used by HILLARY Clinton in 1996.
But you're right. Bill Clinton was president.
whycanttheygetgirlfriends
And when Hillary Clinton said it in that speech she was not talking about youths or African American youths in general. She was talking specifically about kids who are gang members, who commit violent crimes.
req4adream99
It’s one of those “people in general don’t know history” things. If you have even a basic understanding of history at all you can see that it cycles - to “predict” the future all you really have to do is really think about the actual causes of historical events and then project that same cause 10-20 years into the future. Humans as a species would do well to look at our past to identify the patterns, but we (again as a species) still believe that somehow our country / generation is the one/1
req4adream99
That won’t repeat the cycle so we ignore the small warning signs until we get big problems.
req4adream99
I say basic, but you need at least college level history 101 and the desire to critically think.
HaroldTheCleverSheep
Great book!
JoeMangoJello
How do we... I mean, it, yeah... How does IT end?
HaroldTheCleverSheep
I mean…not well but it’s a good read.
pdarkfred
Never did... she died before the third book of the trilogy could be finished. That said, READ IT. It's incredible.